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I'm glad to know what Zipperfish thinks, but that still doesn't offer anyone any hard evidence that the CBC is biased.

   

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnis ... 40075.html


a few stats

   

CBC Accused of Bias in Mulroney Case

There's still no response from the Ombudsman at the CBC to charges that reporters at the network were actively feeding questions to Liberal members of the Commons Ethics Committee last week during their questioning of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in the Karl-Heinz Schreiber affair. The call for an investigation into the issue came from the Conservative Party's director of political operations, Doug Finley, in an open letter late last week. Former Liberal cabinet minister Jean LaPierre, now a TV pundit, made the allegations on Mike Duffy Live late last week, when he said that an "influential" Liberal MP had told him that CBC reporters supplied the questions that Montreal Liberal MP Pablo Rodriguez asked Mr. Mulroney during his testimony before the Committee. The Liberals say the story is a "total fabrication." But now a blogger in Kitchener Ontario has received an email, purportedly from a senior official at the CBC, who wrote - and again, this isn't official, so take it for what it's worth - but the email said "I wanted to let you know that CBC news chiefs have looked at the allegations... They feel that the reporter's actions in pursuing the story were inappropriate and against CBC/Radio-Canada's Journalistic Standards. They are continuing to investigate the particulars and will follow the disciplinary processes outlined in the CBC's collective agreement." This story, either way, isn't over.

http://www.noapologies.ca/2007/12/news- ... 19-07.html

CBC Admits Reporter Had Bias

The CBC has finally named the reporter involved in that blatant case of bias in Ottawa last month; the incident where a reporter was feeding questions to a Liberal member of the Commons Ethics Committee in the questioning of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in the Karl-Heinz Schreiber affair. It turns out the blogosphere was right. The reporter was Krista Erickson. She's been mentioned on blogsites before - the object of some criticism over her ethical standards, her "tone" in covering Conservatives in the Senate, and her conduct at a party in Ottawa a few years back . CBC publisher John Cruickshank has now sent a letter to the Conservative party admitting it was Erickson who fed several questions to the Liberals. But he insisted in the letter that the incident wasn't evidence of any deep-seated anti-Conservative bias at the CBC, writing that Erickson, "acting on her own, used inappropriate tactics as a result of journalistic zeal, rather than partisan interest." Erickson has been disciplined, too. She's no longer working at the CBC's Parliamentary bureau. She's been sent to Toronto instead.

http://www.noapologies.ca/2008/01/news- ... 22-08.html

   

CBC - Cheating and Bluffing Corporation

CBC Christmas Commercial Won't Mention Christmas

   

CBC biased in coverage of judicial appointments: former adviser

CBC busted again...

CBC still tinkering with Falun Gong documentary

Well, the site CBC Watch is down but the CBC still gets exposed.

   

Shut the whinning simpering toadies of socialism down. They no longer represent Canadian values and haven't since the 50's.

They are strictly a left wing poltical propaganda machine which needs to expunged from Canadian society. Either that or turn off the Government tap and make them go it alone. A prospect that I'm quite sure not alot of their Iron Rice Bowl employees would relish.

   

I checked out all these links, most of them are irrelevant entirely (the one about the chinese demonstrators... WTF does that have to do with anything?)

The only one that's even interesting is the Stephen Taylor one, and when you give it a serious critical look, it too doesn't really hold up.

His whole beef is that this one CBC package presented one expert who was against the appointment of Tell (a LAW professor from U of T), and no expert in favour. However, the person he thinks the expert (Flanagan) is a poli sci professor and an advisor to Stephen Harper. So we have one expert in the law, and one expert in... conservative politics? That's the person who would have given 'balance' to the report? How about finding another LAW professor somewhere to comment in favour of Tell's appointment? But wait... is there one? Maybe, maybe not.

   

The Conservative government have had a few words to say about the CBC, and not all bad. Let's get to know Bev Oda, former Conservative Minister of Culture.

Bev Oda has a background in broadcasting and communications, which made her well qualified for Minister of Culture. She worked for TVO, CityTV, Global and the Ontario Film Review Board. She was a senior VP for CTV, she was a commissioner for the CRTC, and she had loads of other qualifications.

According to Oda, 'Our [Conservative] government is committed to a relevant public broadcaster for Canadians.'

Now, Oda is no longer the Culture minister. In one of Harper's ever frequent cabinet shuffles, she (the best qualified Tory MP for the job) is now the Minister for (drum roll please).... International Cooperation? Yeah, that makes so much sense... no experience in international relations whatsoever, while her replacement, Josée Verner (the former International Cooperation minister) has absolutely no experience in broadcasting (which is the biggest responsibility of a Culture minister).

   

Chretien, Martin and many other Liberals have had huge business dealings with China so anything that upset their Chinese overlords would affect their income. This is why the CBC squashed that doccumentary, along with the RCMP investigation on Chinese corruption in Canada, called Opperation Sidewinder.

http://www.primetimecrime.com/contribut ... 20Gray.htm

You really are a shill for the CBC.

   

Well aside from the obvious problems of government-influenced censorship (which I would hold against any broadcaster and any government), I don't see how the Government of Canada having 'ties to China' (how's that for ambiguous) is inherently a bad thing. They are the world's most populous country, and an economic power. It's an inescapable relationship. This is not a case of Liberal-CBC collusion, it's a case of government using it's influence to censor programming on the CBC. Any government could do it, they hold the purse strings.

And don't give me any of that shrill crap, because the same can be said of you (and a lot more demonstrably, I might add) to the subject of your unwavering support for anything Conservative. I'm not saying the CBC is perfect, and I never have said so. But what I do say is that it is not institutionally bias, and that short of a few reforms about how we choose its board of governors, it's transparency and accountability mechanisms remain unmatched in the world of journalism.

If you are unhappy about something at the CBC, you can do something about it because you are a partial owner. You have a say. There's something you can't do with private broadcasters. They can act as inappropriately and report as irresponsibly as they want with NO ONE and NOTHING to be accountable to.

   

Ridenrain, you gonna take the challange?

   

What is wrong with CBC that they are unable to create good shows though? Are they buying cheap junk? Is it hard to compeat with shocase? Is CBC just in a slump?

   

Is CBC in a slump? Good God their budget has been cut back so much over the last half dozen or so yeras sooo much that I'm surprised they can stay open at all. Cut any Fortune 500 companies operating expences back as much back as the CBC and they would be shutting their doors.

   

Other brodcasters are profitable; they don't get nay government help.

   

I happen to like quite a lot of the CBC's programming. Just this season they have Jpod and The Border which I like a lot. Not to mention RMR and 22 Minutes.

The other broadcasters are profitable, but they don't have as a high a Canadian content requirement as the CBC, and they make most of their money from their American programming. It's relatively cheap for them to buy the Canadian rights to an American show. So they play it prime time, and watch the advertising dollars roll in.

I personally enjoy Canadian shows, whether on CBC, CTV or any other channel. So it's lucky for me that I have CBC.

   

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